Table 6.
Diagnostic Test Values Birth Through Postpartum
| Tests | Gestation (wk/d) to PPD |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 wk 1 da,b | PPD 1 | PPD 2 | PPD 3c | PPD 4 | PPD 5 | PPD 6 | PPD 9d | |
| AST | – | 43H | – | – | 125 H | 55 H | 33 | |
| ALT | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Creatinine | 0.58–0.55 L | 0.62 L | – | – | – | – | – | |
| PLT | 194–206 | 264 | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Hemoglobin | 12.8–13.2 | 12.3 | – | – | – | – | – | |
| BP range | 130/79–159/93 | 133/80–151/96 | 125/81–156/94 | 139/89–153/97 | 139/85–162/104 | 130/84–166/103 | 89/58–127/82 | 129/79–155/88 |
a
Induction of labor.
b
Baby born.
c
Integrative medicine treatments.
d
Discharged to go home.
wk, weeks; d, day; PPD, postpartum day; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; H, high value; ALT, alanine
aminotransferase; PLT, platelets; BP, blood pressure.